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First edition of Clemens offers opinions, big ideas, and special features on ways of shaping a better worldThe inaugural issue of Clemens

The inaugural issue of a new Salzburg Global magazine is now available to download, read, and share.

Clemens is a new publication which aims to capture opinions and big ideas shaping a better world. The first issue explores cultural innovation in Salzburg, social and emotional learning, the fourth Industrial Revolution, and one man's dream to make London a National Park City.

The magazine is named after Clemens Heller, the visionary founder of what is known today as Salzburg Global Seminar.

Introducing Clemens, Stephen L. Salyer, president and chief executive officer of Salzburg Global Seminar, said, "More than 70 years on, we continue to salute Clemens, the young Austrian with a dream he was determined to realize. And we celebrate his progeny, tens of thousands of young idealists, activists, innovators and leaders – Salzburg Global Fellows – who have followed in his footsteps....

"In these pages you'll meet people like Clemens determined to realize their dreams: survivors of the genocide in Rwanda and the child of Holocaust survivors instilling tolerance and pluralism in young Africans (page 15); an Indian lawyer using theater to change hearts and minds towards LGBT people (page 22) and an American lawyer determined to use the courts to shake the world out of its climate change complacency (page 32); a "guerrilla geographer" turning London into a national park (page 21); a Chilean tech entrepreneur forgoing riches to lead a government innovation lab (page 26); and young cultural innovators proving there's more to Salzburg than Mozart and The Sound of Music (page 11)...

"Clemens called that ﬁrst summer at Schloss Leopoldskron a 'risky experiment.' The magazine that bears his name is exactly that too. Let us know what you think (email clemens@SalzburgGlobal.org), and help ensure our next edition is worth picking up."